From: "AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
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> It was easier than it seemed. I just unziped it and draged it to upx.
> I shrunk it too 200 kb so thats good. I sped crafty up a little bit.
> Does anyone know any more ways to speed up crafty?

Rewrite the code using better methods and algorithms.  Compressing a file
doesn't speed it up, it actually slows it down (at startup), although with UPX
it's not too bad, since UPX's decompression speed is fairly quick.

To make it smaller, did you 'strip' the final executable?  This assumes, of
course, that you built it yourself with DJGPP.

Oh, and if you do a lot of work in a DOS box, you might do well to put UPX in
the /WINDOWS/COMMAND or %DJDIR%/BIN directories.  Drag 'n drop... phegh, I spit
at drag 'n drop.  <g>

AndrewJ